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Criterion
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
Facilitation
Problem Framing Workshop
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.When a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
2-8 h20–45 min60-120 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-12Small cross-functional group4-104-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logProblem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis QuestionsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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